No matter the tree or its size, one can immediately tell whether someone is an American or an European in a photo still after all these years!

How?

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

americans are fatter and have their teeth straightened and smile a lot and are very polite?

(i spent nearly a week in america, so must be some kind of an expert after that!)

My brother was really thin. And no weakling, either, as I learned because he would beat the daylights out of me about every 20 minutes. He liked to eat spinach, and it really did make him strong. Popeye was right!

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He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. His kingdom will have no end.

and have their teeth straightened and smile a lot and are very polite?

That's what all British persons would say when they compare any country to their own

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"Who wants to be consistent? The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Not I."-Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

There is some truth in this, the same as what mabsoota has claimed (but maybe her thesis is a bit more stereotyped ). However, in my case, this argument about mixture of ethnicities does not work, as I am such mixture - Serbian, Montenegrin and Polish for sure, probably some Ukrainian and/or Belarussian too. But, generally, people claim I look as typical Serbian, in Poland many people at once notice I'm not Polish (or "pure" Polish)

BumpThe second picture is from my Slava of st. Luke (I've celebrated it first time as full member of the Orthodox Church, so it's really important) and the first one is just my portrait I use on facebook

Dang.

Ja. Dominika is a very pretty young lady.

I doubted that it was possible for you to look prettier, but you managed to do so in your Christmas picture.

Now I need ZZ and Hiwot to post pictures so I can compliment them too and it doesn't look like I'm hitting on any one particular OC.net beauty.

No matter the tree or its size, one can immediately tell whether someone is an American or an European in a photo still after all these years!

How?

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Seconded. Likewise, can't explain it.

It's simple.

The smile.

Americans smile immediately on cue for "candids" (not me). And Northern and Central and Eastern Europeans simply do not for the most part. (Americans didn't when photography first came around.)

This and a few other things of course. But that is a cultural difference that has held up in spite of the Americanized onslaught of social media.

Maybe this is why I always get the comment "You aren't white/American are you?" When I wear a headcovering of some sort, people often don't think I even speak English. I smile a lot around my kids because they are so amusing, otherwise my natural expression isn't a smile. (Although, who really does smile naturally 24/7?)

u don't look too skinny.as for cyrillic, he he, it's true dutch people are much more polite than british.they are nearly like americans!(who really do smile too much, i agree!)the other europeans, though are not polite.i remember one memorable journey on tarom (romanian air) where my husband asked for milk in his coffee.the steward replied 'what?!'he said 'do you have milk?'the steward replied 'no!'it was like: of course they didn't have milk. what idiot would drink milk in their coffee?!

as for me, i am skinny and have really crooked teeth, but i do smile a bit much.especially in church!

Prepare to be disappointed by the wrath of skinny American jerk who refuses to smile because he refuses to brush his teeth

No applause necessary

EDIT:how did I get upside down???

Exceptions make the rule So interesting how you've manged to post it upside down

Well, actually when I visited USA it was so nice that everybody was asking "how are you" with smile. But as with everything, too much it's not a good thing. Smile should be natural, show our true emotions. However, people (what's interesting to note, especially priests), say that I smile too rarely (and most time look so serious) and that's also not good. I can imagine, how I would be perceived, if I lived in USA.

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No matter the tree or its size, one can immediately tell whether someone is an American or an European in a photo still after all these years!

How?

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Seconded. Likewise, can't explain it.

It's simple.

The smile.

Americans smile immediately on cue for "candids" (not me). And Northern and Central and Eastern Europeans simply do not for the most part. (Americans didn't when photography first came around.)

This and a few other things of course. But that is a cultural difference that has held up in spite of the Americanized onslaught of social media.

That might be part of the reason why you look like you should be British.

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"Some have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at pleasure, so as to produce the effect of singing."- St. Augustine of Hippo

No matter the tree or its size, one can immediately tell whether someone is an American or an European in a photo still after all these years!

How?

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Seconded. Likewise, can't explain it.

It's simple.

The smile.

Americans smile immediately on cue for "candids" (not me). And Northern and Central and Eastern Europeans simply do not for the most part. (Americans didn't when photography first came around.)

This and a few other things of course. But that is a cultural difference that has held up in spite of the Americanized onslaught of social media.

Wait a minute. I distinctly remember you smiling in the picture of you that you posted in here many moons ago.

HMMMM>?!?!?!?!

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No matter the tree or its size, one can immediately tell whether someone is an American or an European in a photo still after all these years!

How?

Occasionally I agree with orthonorm and this is one of those times. I can't explain exactly how, but there is a difference - maybe it's the style of clothing, maybe posture, maybe less of a mixture of ethnicities* - just one of those things that you know but find hard to explain. Is it always accurate? Certainly not, but often enough.

*I know that American, Canadian, etc. can be named as particular ethnicities as well but they have formed as a result of the mixing of (mostly) European ethnic backgrounds. Compare the stereotypical Norwegian, Russian, and Spaniard and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Seconded. Likewise, can't explain it.

It's simple.

The smile.

Americans smile immediately on cue for "candids" (not me). And Northern and Central and Eastern Europeans simply do not for the most part. (Americans didn't when photography first came around.)

This and a few other things of course. But that is a cultural difference that has held up in spite of the Americanized onslaught of social media.

Wait a minute. I distinctly remember you smiling in the picture of you that you posted in here many moons ago.

You have no idea what a hipster is if you think this is a hipster. You THINK you know what a hipster is, but you would be wrong. Those who self-identify as "hipster" would look at this and say, 'square'.

Then they would look at your picture and emulate it. If anyone in this thread looks like a hipster, it's you.

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"Hearing a nun's confession is like being stoned to death with popcorn." --Abp. Fulton Sheen

You have no idea what a hipster is if you think this is a hipster. You THINK you know what a hipster is, but you would be wrong. Those who self-identify as "hipster" would look at this and say, 'square'.

Then they would look at your picture and emulate it. If anyone in this thread looks like a hipster, it's you.

You have no idea what a hipster is if you think this is a hipster. You THINK you know what a hipster is, but you would be wrong. Those who self-identify as "hipster" would look at this and say, 'square'.

Then they would look at your picture and emulate it. If anyone in this thread looks like a hipster, it's you.

Really? If they thought that I looked like a hipster, it would only show that they were retarded.

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I would be happy to agree with you, but then both of us would be wrong.